I mean, you’re not wrong, except it’s not to keep the cars from getting scratched. It’s there to keep the car from going off into the ditch. It also prevents pedestrians from walking off the edge. If there was no slope there, then there would be no guardrail at all. We don’t typically put rails between roads and pedestrian walkways because it would prevent pedestrians from crossing the street. If the rail were closer to the road, the foliage would probably overtake the walkway.

I agree that we should make our communities more walkable, and I agree that safety measures should prioritize the safety of people over inconvenience or the damage of property. But we should understand and accurately describe the reason for the current system, lest we be dismissed entirely.

I could have gotten a marginally better price per tb with bigger drives, but I didn’t need that much storage. The drive you linked is $419 at my local Microcenter.

That’s a pretty good price, too. If you look closely, it’s discounted from MSRP. The MSRP is roughly in line with the price per tb.

I loved that game when I was a kid. We had names for all the special charge throws, like slow ball, lift off, and frisbee.

I always wondered where that version of dodgeball came from. I tried to convince my friends to play that way, but their argument was that they couldn’t jump vertically 18 feet into the air.

I just upgraded my pc and added a RAID array. A 4 tb drive is still like $80-150, so $600 for 30tb seems kinda reasonable. It’s outside of my budget, but I’m a cheap bastard.

I was thinking of the committee that voted earlier.

I have to assume anyone trying to hide the list is on the list. So we have 7 Republicans who are assumed to be pedophile rapists.

There are plenty of sources of vitamin c that are available in the winter. Broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts are all available in colder climates well into fall and winter. Sailors would get scurvy from eating fish and cured meat and drinking only ale and water for months at a time. Malnourished children get scurvy because of neglect. It’s not that hard for adults with access to fresh food and sufficient economic freedom to get enough vitamins.

On the one hand, I completely agree, and I think I fucked that up by mentioning him by name instead of the 7 pedophiles that voted it down.

On the other hand, he’s still a shitbag. If he’s catching strays, fuck 'em. In this instance, he voted for some modicum of sanity. He’s also the guy who pulled out his loaded .38 and put it on the table when meeting with Moms Demand Action Against Gun Violence.

There’s no humanitarian medals for “guy who didn’t protect pedophile rapists.”

Buy local, and buy seasonal. That’s just as important, because if you’re shopping for avocados in Milwaukee in November, those fuckers have traveled a long way and was picked a long time ago. You might not live in a climate that has oranges or strawberries year round. Accept this and choose food that doesn’t have a swollen climate footprint.

Also eat free-range billionaires. Eating one billionaire would do more good for the climate than every other change you and 300 of your friends could make.

Sorry, I’ve forgotten who you are.

I don’t really feel like any of them deserve the benefit of doubt.

Jessica, is that you?

She was lounging in his coffee cup like it was a hot tub.

You can discuss the events of a story, and the relative morality and social etiquette of the characters in it, even if the whole thing is entirely fiction. Functionally, it makes no difference if it really happened or it didn’t. Sometimes that matters, but here is doesn’t. You don’t know these people, you’ll never meet these people, and there’s no real-world effect of discussing this story (except maybe someone learns not to touch somebody else’s food?).

Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously. I could be an AI created to respond to your prompts to try to convince you not to complain about fabricated stories. This entire interaction could be four bots engaged in a learning exercise in a simulated online forum. Or maybe it was all a dream the whole time.

Wow, so Norman is the only Republican on the committee who isn’t a pedophile?

No, but I didn’t say that either. You did say to just people die from living. Old people need young people to support them. If everyone just stops fucking, as you suggested, society would collapse under the weight of all the suffering of old people. Those will be your grandparents and then your parents and then you, and probably your kids, too, because that sort of disaster lasts a long time.

You can’t just declare that there are too many people and then expect some other faceless masses to go do the dying somewhere else. If you actually want to lower birth rates, you need to invest in public education and healthcare, and you need to have a plan to care for the unbalanced number of elderly retirees.

I bet you are basing your concept of the “usual” Westerner on your own experience, and you might be surprised at how the actual average person lives even in the “West”.

But to answer your question, the article defines decent living standards as:

nutritious food, modern housing, healthcare, education, electricity, clean-cooking stoves, sanitation systems, clothing, washing machines, refrigeration, heating/cooling, computers, mobile phones, internet, transit, etc.

Nutritious food is unavailable to an alarming number of Americans, transit is a mess and almost exclusively car-centered, healthcare and education are severely stratified along economic conditions, and almost everything on that list is a commodity. The USA has sanitation systems almost everywhere, but that’s just because rich poop and poor poop all smells like poop. Wherever the wealthy can isolate their own sanitation, they do.

We have more than enough to make sure everyone has more than enough. Poverty is deliberate and premeditated.